IS IT JUST me, or do I detect a certain wistfulness in recent comments by Franz Müntefering, SPD chairman, reflecting on the ongoing dispute between Germany and Switzerland over the latter’s strict banking secrecy rules?
According to the Financial Times he said that:
… in the past, such disputes would have been settled by troops, but such methods were no longer practicable.
Well that’s just political correctness gone mad, that is…
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Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 4:22 pm
I wonder why he thinks it isn’t practicable anymore?
Surely the German military don’t fear defeat by Switzerland?
It’s probably because the German politicians bank there.
Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 4:50 pm
perhaps german satnavs only work towards the east !
Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 5:39 pm
You can take the (Ger)man out of the Kampfgruppen, but you can’t take the Kampfgruppen out of the (Ger)man…
Apparently…
Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 5:51 pm
Ah, but perhaps that’s just what they want you to think?
Be honest, if Germany invaded Switzerland tomorrow no-one would be expecting it and most people would probably just assume it was some sort of April Fools joke until it was too late…
Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 6:32 pm
How strange. That was exactly my idea a couple of weeks ago:
http://wrinkledweasel.blogspot.com/2009/03/invade-switzerland.html
Tuesday 24 March 2009 at 7:53 pm
Germany was struggling, oh what a sad sad story.
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Oh where oh where was he?
Oh where can that man be?
We looked around
And then we found
The man for you and me
And now, it’s….
Springtime, for Hitler and Germany…
Wednesday 25 March 2009 at 3:43 pm
They don’t make Germans like they used to do they.
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